WOW : Every meteorite since 861 AD: watch them fall

WOW : Every meteorite since 861 AD: watch them fall

I wish i could embed the animation here on ATS maybe someone more savvy could help

one of the best i have ever seen tbh

It sure puts things into perspective and that's only ones we have discovered and the miniscule amount that have been witnessed..

The recent Russian meteorite makes me think wow what a rare occurrence, but it seems we are bombarded regularly something i have suspected for some
time, its just as the reporting and ability to catalog and record directly from witnesses (camera's /mobiles etc) has improved giving us a more
accurate picture.

Space is a pretty turbulent place we are probably lucky to have achieved this state of civilization before being wiped out due to the constant
hits..... our ancestor where probably not so lucky..

Watched some sort of science show where this scientist demonstrated how much "stuff" (read: meteorites) fallls from space. All he did was take a
garden hose and spray down his roof and collected the runoff. Then he got a magnet and ran it through that runoff and whatever stuck to the magnet
came from space. It surprised me how much there actually was.

Sorry, there's no way it can be embedded here on ATS. So punters out there will have to click to visit the site. But, its pretty worth it!

Although, please nobody jump to conclusions that there's a massive increase. Don't forget to take into account the rise of print media, the rise in
populations and the increase in city size (which would enable a more social environment to discus sightings).

Originally posted by Terminal1
Watched some sort of science show where this scientist demonstrated how much "stuff" (read: meteorites). All he did was take a garden hose and spray
down his roof and collected the runoff. Then he got a magnet and ran it through that runoff and whatever stuck to the magnet came from space. It
surprised me bow much there actually was.

Is it that we are getting more hits now, or that we are recording them better?

In my opinion we are getting LESS hits now if we had the recording equipment we have now thousands of years ago something in my gut tells me it used
to be a lot worse and things are probably scaling down.

@ Terminal1

A lot of stuff falls from the sky...

We are made of stardust! ..Everything falls from space into what we are today so it does not surprise me that this is discovered everywhere.

@ Qumulys

Although, please nobody jump to conclusions that there's a massive increase. Don't forget to take into account the rise of print media, the rise in
populations and the increase in city size (which would enable a more social environment to discus sightings

I 100% agree with this analysis.

This animation is why the human race needs to look outwards rather than inwards with killings over unimportant pieces of rock on this tiny speck of
dust floating in the cosmos.

Sorry, there's no way it can be embedded here on ATS. So punters out there will have to click to visit the site. But, its pretty worth it!

I tried, but it said my browser was too old to see it. First time I ever got that. It wants me to update with theirs, so no thanks. There's no way to
grab it for this thread? It sounds very interesting.

That's what I would think as well, however I was referring to the chart. Thank you and Qumulys for the responses.

The glaring thing i am missing with the 'Less' statement is I guess it depends on the region of space our planet/solar system/galaxy is traversing
this could dramatically affect the number of impacts i guess.

Also the mind boggles as this animation shows that we have only witnessed 2.99% (even with modern recording technology) of Meteorite strikes that have
been 'FOUND' i wonder how many have not been found?

The maths seem to say we are extremely ignorant of incoming objects from space.

The data comes from The Meteorite Bulletin, constructed and maintained by the Nomenclature Committee of the Meteoritical Society.

The database indexes several catalogues, including the Catalogue of Meteorites from the Natural History Museum in London, the commercial program
MetBase, the Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter, and the Meteoritical Bulletin. It contains detailed information about the meteorites, including
narratives of the discovery, mineralogy, petrology, specimen locations, chemical and isotopic composition, and references to the literature. The
primary source of information in this database is the Catalogue of Meteorites.

I guess they took all available official meteorite data into consideration.. again i say what about the stuff they don't see even with modern
recording methods? the actual figures are probably insane.

If you click and hover on the 'Year' in the animation it tells you the location of the discovery's and the weight of the impact..

AWESOME SAUCE!!!

1947 in the Russian federation does not seem a great place to be ... 23 Ton meteorite hit .. Wowsers.

Sikhote-Alin is an iron meteorite that fell in 1947 on the Sikhote-Alin Mountains in eastern Siberia. Though large iron meteorite falls had been
witnessed previously and fragments recovered, never before in recorded history had a fall of this magnitude been observed.[3] An estimated 70 tonnes
of material survived the fiery passage through the atmosphere and reached the Earth.[2]

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